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Fecundity(health)
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fecundity (iou)



fecundity noun. LME.
[French fecondite or Latin fecunditas, from fecundus fecund: see -ITY.]
The capacity to reproduce, fertility, productiveness, esp. in abundance. LME.
A. Burgess Why..complain of fecundity when god commanded us to be fruitful?
The capacity for making productive or fertile. M17.
Demography. Reproductive capacity; the maximum number of live births calculated to be possible in a given population. Cf. FERTILITY 3. M19.